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Alright understood. I'll try to go through those steps whenever is most convenient; I'll probably be back on the forums to get a walkthrough with that too lol. I'll mark this as solved!
Samuria, Superfly thank you both! Its unfortunate that we were sold a machine with illegitimate OS, but I...

I uninstalled AVG and AVAST for now. I also had a proxy server in IE, but I disabled that for the following steps.
I also watched the video and followed your steps, and got "Windows key Installed". But then I went to see if it was activated and it remains unchanged. Trying to activate it online...

I figured that was going to end up being the case. I'll still try Samuria's tips just to see. Assuming it still doesn't activate, what are my options? Do I have to buy a new key/Windows edition? Or is it possible to go back to OEM Windows state without data loss? Is doing nothing an option as...

Thanks for looking out, I didn't even think of anyone using my keys.
As to the other questions, I will change the dns when I get the chance and come back to the thread; as of right now I don't believe there is a server running on the pc nor have we ever set up a server. I have no knowledge of a...

Hey all,
I'm trying to activate a computer that my girlfriend bought a year ago. We didn't notice anything wrong, but its more likely we didn't look to hard.
Anyways, when trying to activate online I get Error Code: 0x8007232B, DNS name does not exist. My guess, after browsing a loooot of...